Introduction

Scalix 12.5 is the latest upgrade of Scalix 12, providing important fixes and exciting new
features. We recommend that you upgrade all systems running Scalix to this latest version.

This document includes late-breaking information about product capabilities, fixed bugs, known issues and workarounds, so please read it thoroughly before beginning your installation or upgrade.

For full documentation on how to install, configure and administer Scalix, see the customer documentation at http://www.scalix.com/support-resources-documentation.
In addition, after Installing the Scalix Mail Server
and other applications, you can access the following online help systems, which
are embedded in the product:

Scalix Web Access Online Help

Scalix Management Console
Online Help

Scalix Connect for Microsoft
Outlook Online Help

You also can learn more about any of the known issues listed here - or report others - by going to the Scalix bug tracking system at http://bugzilla.scalix.com/.

Scalix, Inc. is committed to your success with our software. For additional information beyond what is provided here and in the official product documentation, visit the Scalix Forums at http://www.scalix.com/forums/.

Customers who have purchased support from Scalix also may also contact Scalix Technical Support to request help, ask questions about how to use a particular feature, provide feedback, or report bugs by visiting http://www.scalix.com/support.

Acknowledgements

Starting with version 11.3 Scalix Connect for Outlook includes software developed by the OpenSSL project for use in the OpenSSL toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org). It also includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and software written by Tim Hudson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Scalix would like to thank these individuals and the OpenSSL community for their valuable contributions.

Starting with version 11.3 Scalix Server includes software based on the Universal Character Set Detector from the Mozilla project (http://www.mozilla.org), written by Simon Montagu ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Shy Shalom ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Shoshannah Forbes and others. Scalix would like to thank these individuals and the Mozilla community for their valuable contributions.

Installation issues

The following procedure/adjustments are mandatory if you installed CentOS6 (64bit) or ORACLE Linux 6 (x86/x64)

If port 80 is not set to allow connections (open) in ip
tables, Tomcat will not work at all - scalix-tomcat service will run, but in the tomcat log there will be a big backtrace

Open port 80 in iptables

restart the iptables service

restart the scalix-tomcat service

restart the httpd service

After this it should be working correctly

Secondly initialization of all web applications in Tomcat can take over 20 sec - Tomcat will work only after initialization of its webapps. If you make changes to Tomcat such as the above, please also restart apache (service httpd restart).

On Debian
sometime installation fails due to a pre-existing error in the sendmail.cf file
with the MAILER lines in the wrong place. To fix this manually move the bad MAILER lines to the end of the file
and try again.

The Installer GUI has been removed. Only the Command Line Interface (CLI mode) installer is used with Scalix 12.5

Important end of
Life Notices

When running Scalix in a mixed-version multi-server setup, where your front end servers are running SWA 12.5, the back end servers have to be upgraded to at minimum version 12.5 as well.

·Scalix 12.5 is the last
release of Scalix to provide support for SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server 10 (SLES 10). We recommend that you upgrade to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11) to prepare for
the release and upgrade to future versions of Scalix.

·Scalix 12.5 is the last
release of Scalix to provide support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
(RHEL5). We recommend that you upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6
(RHEL6) to prepare for the upgrade to future versions of
Scalix.

·Scalix is further halting development
of Scalix Connect for Outlook versions 12 (Outlook 2007) and earlier as of Scalix 12.5. We recommend that you upgrade to Outlook 2010 or
Outlook 2013. While we will continue to provide support on the basis of a
frozen connector version, no new functionality in Scalix Connect will
be made available for these platforms.

·JRE 1.5 is no longer supported.

·Upgrading from Scalix 11.3 or earlier is not supported

Upgrade Notices

Please read the following notes very carefully, as some specific actions might be required as you upgrade from earlier versions of Scalix.

Upgrading from a previous version

If you are upgrading from a previous version of Scalix, there are several changes of which you should be aware:

Before beginning any upgrades, check your license key. If you are upgrading to or from a Small Business Edition (SBE), Enterprise Edition (EE) or Hosting Edition (HE) installation, you need to have a valid and current license key with a "Last Valid Issue Date" (LVID) on or after January 1, 2015 (2015-01-01) to use Scalix 12.5. If you continue installation after the respective warning and the license is not valid, your installation will downgrade to the Community Edition. To check the LVID of your license, use the
Scalix Management Console or the sxlicense command. To extend your upgrade subscription or to get a new license key, please contact Scalix Sales.

ACL behaviour has been changed as of Scalix 12.5. If upgrading from an earlier version of Scalix, you may to first set general.cfg ACL_NEW_SEARCH_RULES=FALSE to temporarily disable the new ACL rule behavior, and then migrate your existing ACL rules . See the Scalix Administration Guide for details.

When upgrading from previous installation of Scalix to 12.5, it is recommended that you empty your IMAP caches by running the following command on your backend server. Please note that this command may only be run when nobody is signed on to the system (when the rci and IMAP services are off):
cd $(omrealpath "~/"); find user* -name imap-cache -exec rm -rf {} \;

Features & Supported OS

Scalix 12.5 provides the following features:

Major archiving changes to support Exchange format and other features:

With general.cfg settings of ARCHIVE=TRUE and ARCH_MESSAGE_FORMAT=SIMPLE the output is the same as before in Scalix 12.1.

With general.cfg settings of ARCHIVE=TRUE and ARCH_MESSAGE_FORMAT=EXCHANGE the output is in the format of Exchange 2007 Journaling.

With general.cfg settings of ARCHIVE=TRUE and ARCH_MESSAGE_FORMAT=SCALIX the output is in the new Scalix format (for details see sxarchiver man page).

Major changes to support Sender Internet Address configuration and related new functionality:

Prior to Scalix 12.5 the SMTP name used for a message sent from Scalix used the SMTP name that was the primary name for a configured user (or the first SMTP name if multiple names were configured). The 12.5 enhancements allow much more flexibility in the selection of which SMTP name to use at the sender.

A new configuration option has been defined (per-user and/or per-system): UL_SENDER_IA=TRUE|FALSE|<SenderIA>

If the Sender IA feature is configured and active, then Outlook and SWA clients will be presented with ways for select the Sender IA.

When renaming an Outlook Folder, sometimes the folder is renamed back (conflicts with SmartCache)

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[Defect]

Sometimes, Connector leaves a sent mail item within Outbox Folder instead of moving it to the Sent Items Folder

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[Defect]

On moving a lot of mail items between folders, sometimes Connector leaves mail items in the old folder

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[Defect]

Outlook Startup With No or Less Internet Connection

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[Defect]

Open Other Users Mailbox On Other Server

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[Defect]

Delegates Bug within Outlook 2010/2013. If user A sets permissions for user B (e.g. editor), user B can open folder of UserA BUT cannot see any details. An error appears: "The information store could not be opened”

By sending Email from additional account (e.g. Google) recipient receives this message as if sent from Outlook, not from additional account

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[Defect]

Email address is not present for Openmail addresses. For the messages that contain OpenMail address (not SMTP!) Outlook does not display mail addresses in views, but shows only Display Name. In such cases user does not know from where message is sent because only the display name is visible

Scalix Web Access (Webmail)

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[Defect]

Still unable to re-schedule a appointment reminder within Webmail on Mozilla Firefox. The drop-down does not function. Accordingly the only option for "snooze" is the default 5 min. This functionality seems to work ok in Google Chrome.

Global JAVA Enhancement

Support of jre 1.5 is dropped and not supported any more. Supported JRE from 1.6 to 1.8

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[Enhancement]

Tomcat updated from 6.0.36 to 6.0.43 version.

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[Enhancement]

cmd /opt/scalix-tomcat/bin/sxtomcat-webapps has new argument to add for any existing application rule to use https insted of http
/opt/scalix-tomcat/bin/sxtomcat-webapps --forcehttps {instance} {caa|mobile|platform|res|sis|webmail|wireless|sacapi}
and then restart apache (#service httpd restart)

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[Enhancement]

All components is better working with not ascii (default utf-8 encoding for all requests/responses)

oOther
combinations of Service Packs may work also but are not part of our QA process.

oScalix Web Access and Scalix Management
Console: IE9, 10 and 11 on Windows; Firefox 27.0 on Windows, Mac OS/X or Linux.
Other browsers based on the IE and Gecko engines may work. Chrome 31.0 on
Windows, Mac OS/X or Linux.

System Requirements:

Please the Scalix
Installation guide for current minimum system requirements.

Alert

Note that the choice of storage environments will have a major influence on performance of your Scalix system. Scalix as an application is largely I/O-bound, using variable, small-blocksize random read/write synchronous file I/O.

Also note that Scalixdoes not support
putting a Scalix Message Store on a NFS- or SMB-based storage device such as a NAS Filer. Performance issues and/or Message Store corruption can occur. This is true for all Linux distributions using Linux 2.6.x kernels as the NFS client software in these kernels have known issues with file locking operations, which Scalix heavily relies on.

We suggest putting the Scalix message store on a Hardware RAID Array, using RAID 1+0 for best performance. The use of RAID 5 or RAID 6 will result in substantially worse performance due to the nature of
Scalix Disk I/O patterns (small, synchronous random writes) and is not recommended. In larger installations, we do recommend using iSCSI- or FibreChannel-based SAN storage. We also recommend the use of battery-backed write cache on the RAID controller where available

Packaging

The Scalix
12.5 Release consists of a self-extracting shell archives for Linux and a separate ZIP file download for the Windows components.

The Components in the package and their respective version numbers are as follows:

Component

Package

Build

Scalix
Installer

Linux .bin

12.5

Scalix
Server

Linux .bin

12.5.0.14708

Scalix
Character Set Detectors

Linux .bin

1.0.20071031-2

ScalixLibical

Linux .bin

0.44.976-2

Scalixiconv Extras

Linux .bin

1.2

Scalix
Management Services (SAC, RES)

Linux .bin

12.5.0.14713

Scalix
Messaging Services ("Platform")

Linux .bin

12.5.0.14715

Scalix
Web Access (SWA)

Linux .bin

12.5.0.14715

Scalix
Mobile Web Client (Mobile)

Linux .bin

12.1.0.14474

Scalix
Search and Indexing Services (SIS)

Linux .bin

12.5.0.14715

Scalix
Text Extractors for Indexing and Search *

Linux .bin

1.0

Scalix
DB (Postgres)

Linux .bin

12.5.0-14708

Scalix
Tomcat Connector

Linux .bin

12.5.0-14708

Scalix
Tomcat

Linux .bin

6.0.43

Scalix
Connect for Evolution**

Linux .bin

11.4.2.105

Scalix
Connect for Outlook

Windows .zip

12.5.1

Scalix
Migration Tool (SMT) ***

Windows .zip

11.4.2.598

Scalix
Active Directory Extensions (ADE) ****

Windows .zip

11.4.2.753

* Text
extractors allow the indexing of binary Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
and PDF documents. They are only available as part of Scalix
Small Business Edition (SBE) or Enterprise Edition (EE)
** For Scalix Community Edition downloads, Scalix Connect for Outlook (MAPI) is a separate ZIP-file
download.
*** The Scalix Migration Tool is a separately-sold
product to migrate eMail, Calendar, Contacts and
other objects from Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 to Scalix.
Please contact Scalix
Sales for details.
**** The Scalix Active Directory Extensions are only
available as part of Scalix Small Business Edition
(SBE) or Enterprise Edition (EE)

Known Issues and
Workarounds

Scalix Admin Tools

When creating a mailnode using the Mailnode screen in SAC, public folder structure in
hosting mode is not created and users cannot login.

Do not create the Hosted Mailnode using the Mailnode Screen in SAC; use the provided SAC Hosted Mailnode plugin instead. In Scalix
11.5, the functionality will be fully embedded into SAC and the plugins will
go away

The size limit for LDAP queries in SAC may be insufficient for even simple
installations. The default will be raised in a future release. The limit can
be manually adjusted in ubermanager.properties if
the said error appears

Scalix Server

It is recommended not to use non-ASCII characters in passwords. For best
security and compatibility, use a combination of ASCII characters, numbers
and special characters. non-ASCII characters in passwords are subject to
client processing and are not likely to work across different clients

ommodu --resource Y does not create calendar
folder and set calendar permissions

It is not recommended to change a normal user to a resource. Delete the
user mailbox and create a new one, which will have the calendar folder setup.
Otherwise, you'll have to log-in to a calendar-enabled client with the user
and setup folder permissions on the Calendar manually

The wrong size information can be corrected by running omscan
in "-S" fix mode and then deleting another item, so that it gets
added to the recovery folder. Future versions of Scalix
will automatically correct the wrong information

Scalix 12 will eventually allow for an unlimited
number of items in each folder. For Scalix 11, the
limitations are 128K (=131072) items per folder (including subfolder entries,
but NOT including subfolder items) and 32K (=32767) when Outlook is supposed
to access the folder using Scalix Connect

In Internet Explorer and when running on Vista, files with apostrophes in
the name cannot be opened when received as an attachment. This will be fixed
in a future release. As a workaround, please re-send the file with the
attachment renamed. In general, it is not recommended to use filenames with
special characters for attachments

The search window will be integrated into the main window in a future
release of Scalix. Popup handling will be improved.
For the time being, popup blocking must be fully disabled for SWA to work
correctly

SWA fails to send mail to the PDLs having special characters in their
names.

Certain special characters like double quotes ("), ampersand (&),
angle quotes (<>) or semicolon (;) should not be used in the display name
of a personal distribution list in the SWA contact folder; otherwise, it will
not be possible to send email to these distribution lists

Scalix Connect for Outlook

Bug

Issue

Comment/Solution/Workaround

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Extended Japan Support ISO-2022-jp
does not work yet

Will be fixed in future Scalix version

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Outlook 2010/2013 sometimes
freezes on accepting meeting requests IF there are two users with the same CN
on a server.

"Recall message" functionality should be supported with Scalix Connect.

This may be implemented in a future release of Scalix.
It should be noted, however, that the functionality
is only weakly implemented in Outlook, as in many cases only a
"Disregard previous message" message can be provided

iTunes does not support sync with iphone using
iTunes OutlookSyncClient

Support for wired synchronization using Outlook and iTunes will be
supported in Scalix 11.5. Scalix
ActiveSync, providing for Push Email and wireless calendar and contact
synchronization, could be used as a better alternative

Blackberry Desktop Manager v4.1 and v4.2 can be enabled to work with Scalix using a patch to those products provided in the
"extras" folder of the Scalix Connect
distribution. Future versions of Scalix connect
will support BBDM without such a patch